Art: Out of Violence, Victory

To the tune of a commercial for a noted detergent, Jack Zajac of
Claremont. Calif., lightheartedly identifies himself as "Zajac the
foaming sculptor," but behind the punning and affability of the man is
an artistry that is anything but froth. At 33, Sculptor-Painter Zajac
has already produced a body of work as profound as that of almost any
other American of his age.

In his new exhibition at Los Angeles' Felix Landau Gallery, he shows
battered rams' heads, writhing rams' horns, trussed-up goats, a series
of pieces depicting the deposition from the cross. Visually, the
sculptures are violent and brutal, but the...